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Today’s post should be a quick one, but something we wanted to highlight.  Here’s the story: Transpara has a great real-time engine that took years for really smart people to build and get right.  We also have a very “effective” client that does some amazing things,...

Managing Automation – March 30, 2010 Analytical applications provide the means to keep tabs on plant performance and tie that data back to business objectives. In some instances, manufacturers need to view performance on a mobile device.

Control Global – March 25, 2010 Mohawk launched the Information Everywhere initiative to bring information from across the enterprise to users via web pages, on mobile devices and within applications. Mohawk implemented Visual KPI to turn data from operations,...

Control Global – March 25, 2010 Wireless workers are already roaming around process plants worldwide. Might your facility be next? On a Sunday afternoon at home with a single click of a Blackberry, a Mohawk engineer can tell that the paper machine is up, running at a...

Michael Gartenberg was right!  Context is almost ALL that matters since data without context is irrelevant noise. Imagine a person running down the street screaming “8! 8! 8!” without the context of “number of Olympic Gold Medals.”  We probably could not understand...

He has been called the “Leonardo da Vinci of data” by the New York Times.  This was evident at the San Francisco Westin in mid-December as close to 1500 devoted followers paid almost 400 bucks each to hear Edward Tufte talk about visualizing complex data.  Given what...

Automation World – January 2010 “Looking ahead,” says Michael Saucier, CEO of Transpara, “I’d say the exploding adoption of smart devices is going to be the biggest factor driving automation and manufacturing operations. I think we’re at the very beginning of tapping...